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Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermot It may have been one of history’s strangest invasions, but it is also, according to author Des Ekin, one of ...

Kieran Jordan. By Daniel Neely Boston is one of the great Irish music scenes in the United States. It has a very strong Comhaltas presence, there a...

By Colleen Taylor A band name like Young Wonder seems like a smart way to begin a music career. Two years ago, that’s just what a duo from Cork did...

Tom Phelan. BERNIE KEATING PHOTOGRAPHY By Tom Phelan [An excerpt from an upcoming memoir, “Working for JohnJoe”] Like the Eskimos, who have learned...

Seamus Heaney pictured in 1995 after he won the Nobel Prize. ROLLING NEWS By Orla O'Sullivan Charlotte Moore was expecting 20 critics, including on...

Poached Egg PHOTO LOUGH ERNE RESORT By Margaret M. Johnson If you love good food, you’ll want to visit Northern Ireland in 2016, recently announced...

By Colleen Taylor It’s impossible to talk to Paddy Moloney without a big grin on your face. When I called the music legend and Chieftains leader in...

By Daniel Neely I want to start out this week by congratulating Tommy McCarthy and Louise Costello, proprietors of The Burren in Somerville, Mass.,...

At both the Dublin and New York launches of “Models for Movers” by Íde O’Carroll, left, Galway-born painter Lisa O'Donnell, center, exhibited her p...

“69th NYS Memorial Mass, St. Brigid’s Church, August 14, 1861, Imagined,” a painting by Patricia Melvin. By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.co...

Fan Eva Murphy wrote her tribute to singer David Bowie in Grand Social in Dublin on Monday evening. PHOTOCALL By Colleen Taylor This week, the worl...

Prize-winning writer Brian Ó Broin with his wife Jo Schuster and their children Ána and Fiona. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The protagon...